Thanks Lee. It's a bit shocking though. They've upgraded the
earthquake to 8.2 and so far, three people have died. Sure, I was
waiting and sort of hoping for an earthquake but nothing like this. I
live in a region where seismic activity is very common but we very
seldom get earthquakes that cause any serious damage to property or
people. So I hope people don't assume that by making this type of
work, I'm preying on the misfortunes of others. Seismic activity is
very common. The tectonic plates are moving, shifting and bouncing
around all the time but it doesn't always cause the kind of
destruction that this one apparently did.

On 9/12/07, Lee Wells <lee@leewells.org> wrote:
> nice
>
>
> > From: Pall Thayer <pallthay@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: Pall Thayer <pallthay@gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:32 +0000
> > To: rhizome <list@rhizome.org>
> > Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: A painted earthquake
> >
> > At approximately 11:10 GMT this morning there was an earthquake near
> > Sumatra that measured 7.9 on the Richter scale. It just so happens
> > that at 11:10 this morning I was sitting at my computer here in
> > Reykjavik, Iceland working on my new piece. It's a piece that uses
> > realtime seismic data to affect the computer's automated redrawing of
> > photos downloaded from Flickr.com. Lately, I've been using a
> > seismometer that's located in Papua New Guinea that streams it's data
> > live over the Internet. Papua New Guinea is very close to Sumatra. A
> > prototype of the work can be seen running in realtime at
> > http://pallit.lhi.is/~palli/nude_studies and screencaptures from the
> > earthquake can be seen at
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/34767692@N00/1366370204/
> >
> >
> >
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